Preparing for Senior Leadership - Wednesday 7 May 2025 (Online)

Course Outcomes – by the end of the course delegates will have:

• Learnt about senior leadership roles and their opportunities and challenges
• Understood their own development needs and career pathways in preparation for a senior leadership role
• Learnt about the application, interview and recruitment process
• Developed insight into making an effective transition to a senior leadership role

Course Outline

• The nature of Senior Leadership
• What the Head is looking for, both in appointing a new senior leader, and in working with their Senior Leadership Team
• Making the transition – how do you prepare? 
• Reflection: how ready are you, and what might be your next steps?

Course Programme:

Speaker Biography: 

Jill Berry taught for thirty years across six different schools in the UK, state and independent, and she taught adults to GCSE and A level in the evenings for several years.  She was a head for the last ten years of her time in schools.  Since 2010 she has completed a doctorate, researching the transition to headship and written a book about it: 'Making the Leap - Moving from Deputy to Head' (Crown House, 2016) https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/publications/making-the-leap (also now available as an audio book); and carried out an extensive range of leadership development work.  She has given a TEDx presentation on the subject of ‘Take a Second Look: Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others’: https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_berry_take_a_second_look_bring_out_the_best_in_yourself_and_others and she has published four novels. See her author page:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B01JSM9UXI

Jill is an advocate for the opportunities presented by social media for networking and professional development, on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jillberry102, 

on Bluesky: @jillberry102.bsky.social,

on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jill-berry-a5a55a21/ 

and blogging about education at https://jillberry102.blog/